Syntactic Structures
The Hague: Mouton & Co. Publishers, 1957.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the half-title page. 116 pp. Bound in publisher's pale blue wraps printed in dark blue. Near Fine with moderate toning to covers, small glue repair at tail of spine, and occasional penciled underlining and marginalia. Ownership stamp to front cover of Dr. Knut Bergsland, a Norwegian linguist who authored a number of authoritative works on the Eskimo-Aleut languages.
A signed first edition of Chomsky's first published book, which changed the field of linguistics immensely. It's best known for the meaningless and yet grammatically coherent sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
Price: $6,500